In the coming decades, what are the next great framing controversies? What are the public engagement flashpoints to anticipate? On what issues can we apply a scientific understanding of the public and the media system to avoid communication failures?

Now that Craig Venter has transplanted genomes between species of bacteria and human-animal chimeric embryos are more science than science-fiction, I predict we may need new frames to understand “human.”

Growth. We need a much better understanding of the consequences of the naive assumption that growth is always a good thing in the economy, in cities and towns, in nations, …. The planet is finite so growth as we understand it today — greater consumption and expanding populations — must hit a wall. We need a new understanding of economics. We need to find ways for politicians to NOT run on a pro-growth platform.